Upcoming Event: Black Feminist Solidarity with Radical Freedom Struggles: In Praxis - A Conversation with Azmera Hammouri-Davis and Ryna Workman
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By Black Women Radicals
Join us for a conversation on “Black Feminist Solidarity with Radical Freedom Struggles: In Praxis.”
On Tuesday, November 7th at 6:30 PM EST, join us for the online event, “Black Feminist Solidarity with Radical Freedom Struggles: In Praxis.”
The event will be held on Zoom. You can register for the event here: https://bit.ly/SolidarityInPraxis
About the event: What does Black feminist solidarity look like in praxis with freedom struggles in Palestine? How do we practice solidarity with Palestine while we also center our solidarity with resistance movements on the African continent and in the African Diaspora? What are different political and popular organizing methods that we can utilize to showcase our solidarity? How do we center both Black feminist theory and praxis from historical, contemporary, internationalist, and coalition building frameworks?
Join us for a conversation with featured panelists Azmera Hammouri-Davis and Ryna Workman as they discuss what Black feminist solidarity looks like in praxis.
About the Panelists:
Azmera Hammouri-Davis (she/her), M.T.S (The Poetic Theorist) is a Black-Palestinian American writer, poet/emcee, interdisciplinary educator and independent scholar-practitioner from Kea'au, Hawaii who has been training and teaching the Afro-Brazilian martial art of Capoeira for over fifteen years. Founder and host of Break The Boxes, Hammouri-Davis works to uplift wisdom across faith traditions and generations through critical conscious raising & creative expression. Currently, she is the founding convener of the Black Christians for Palestine Network, a Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference MICAH Ministry Fellow, and the Community Partnership Lead at Harvard Radcliffe Institute leading Storytelling & Justice programs for system-impacted youth and adults. She also serves as a founding member of Follow The Keepers global Hip Hop collective. She holds a Master of Theological Studies in African/American Religions from Harvard Divinity School; a dual B.A. in Visual & Performing Arts and Social Sciences Psychology from the University of Southern California; a Fulbright Creative & Performing Artist-in-Residence Fellowship in Salvador Bahia, Brazil (2017–2018).
Ryna Workman (they/them) is a law student, organizer, and student leader at NYU School of Law. From South Carolina to New York, Ryna has focused their work on organizing students to be involved in liberation efforts within both the university setting and their local communities. They draw upon their own experiences as a Black nonbinary person living in New York and South Carolina, building solidarity and connections across movements to unite the struggles for reproductive justice, Black liberation, LGBTQ+ justice, Palestinian liberation, and disability justice. Even more than doing the reading, their experience as a summer camp counselor for many summers inspired and shaped the principles they continue to stand by today.